| Show TAFTS tafta VIEWS OF BILL not a perfect measure or complete compliance with promises made wash washington ington president e nt toft taft has given out a statement embodying his views of the now tariff act in which he supports the new measure as a sincere effort for downward revision in this statement he declares 1 I have signed the payne tariff bill bebau because so I 1 believe it to bo be tho the result ot of sincere effort on the part of the republican party to make a downward revision and to comply with the promises of the plat platform form as aa the they have been generally understood and as 1 71 interpreted them in the campaign this Is not a perfect tariff bill or a complete compliance with the promises made strictly inte interpreted but a fulfillment free from criticism in respect to a subject matter involving wany many schedules and thousands of articles could not be expected jt it suffices to say that except with regard to whisky liquors and wines wivel and in regard to silks and some high classes of cottons all of which may be treated as luxuries and proper subjects of a revenue tariff there have been very verv few increases in rates there have imen been a great num number berof of real decreases in rates and they constitute a sufficient amount to justify the statement that this thid bill Is a substantial downward revision and a rea re of excessive rates |
